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Some Gen Zers Are Including Their Social Media on Resumes—Should You?

Success

Gone are the days when job applicants scrambled to update their privacy settings and delete compromising photos of party nights from their social accounts before a job interview. They are even using social media to create their resumes. So social presence was essential, but it had to be appealing to be beneficial.

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From Layoff To Liftoff: 5 Steps To Rebuild Your Career

Allwork

In an era dominated by remote work, AI, and social media, a personal cover letter is still important. One study conducted by ResumeGo reveals applications with tailored cover letters had a 53% higher callback rate than applicants without any cover letter. Write a customized cover letter.

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How to Use ChatGPT: Working With Generative AI

Success

Helping with professional documents: Ideate and write resume drafts , cover letters and other documents. Generating content: Create outlines or drafts of articles, blogs, essays, social media posts plus other content marketing and personal branding materials.

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The Admin’s Guide to Career Organization

All Things Admin

They don’t have an updated resume, a professional portfolio of work samples, or a social media presence. Cover letter. Your cover letter is often the first touch point you have with a potential employer, so you need to make the right impression. This makes a stressful time even tenser.

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Beginning Your Job Search? Start By Building Your Brand

Office Dynamics

Building Your Brand: Get Social. Social media is the engine that your job search will run on. A fully fleshed out, professional social media profile gives employers a point of reference beyond your resume. You might not think that it matters what you post on other social media sites, but you’d be surprised.

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5 Ways to Manage Your Online Reputation

On The Job

If you dont think so, read this column I wrote for Gannett, and you may just change your mind: Maybe you put countless hours into carefully crafting a resume and cover letter. Lots of people haven't made that connection between what's on their social media sites and their job searches. These are great suggestions!

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3 More Tools for Self-Branding and Job Hunting

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

I'm by no means an expert in social media at all. This is when social media plays a large role. I've actually sent in my resume and cover letter to companies with open positions whenever their site was down or when a post had expired. Here are 3 more tools you may want to check out. Hi, @AllyRae!